130 cows for Swazi princess

MBAMBANE — King Mswati III accepted Swaziland’s highest lobolo cattle dowry this week and affirmed the higher number of cows for a Swazi princess that he decreed in 2013.

To bleach or not to bleach

Anne Ruthenburg Fashion Diary HI there readers, how are you doing this week? The obsession of skin whitening never seems to go away, does it? I am starting to think the more…

Mayweather stripped of WBO title

FLOYD Mayweather has been stripped of the WBO welterweight title he won against Manny Pacquiao – and has been bizarrely called out by Anthony Mundine.

TB Joshua in trouble

LAGOS — A coroner on Wednesday said a mega-church run by popular Nigerian preacher TB Joshua should be prosecuted after a building collapse killed 116 people, most of them South…

Tobacco farmers, a target of robbers

Crime Reporter TOBACCO farmers have become the latest victims of organised and daring criminal syndicates after two commercial farmers in Makoni lost flue-cured tobacco worth thousands of dollars to armed…

Chipinge RDC CEO calls it a day

Luthando Mapepa CHIPINGE Rural District Council chief executive officer, Mr James Mundoma, has retired from the local authority after serving it with distinction for 14 years.

Teacher breaches court order

Tendai Gukutikwa A STUDENT teacher at a local college landed herself in trouble after she sent an insulting text message to her estranged husband, breaching a standing court order that…

Efficient grain storage vital to food security

Samuel Kadungure Senior Farming Reporter MAIZE is the most important staple food in Zimbabwe and its storage is crucial to bridge seasons and to ensure household food and nutritional security.

‘I have Nigerian blood’

FORMER Spain youth international defender Derik Osede Prieto has revealed why he wants to play for Nigeria. The 22-year-old centre-back, who is known simply as Derik, has played at all…

Mt Selinda hosts NASH handball finals

Sports Reporter MT Selinda High School in Chipinge will play host to this year’s National Association of Secondary Heads (NASH) national Under-17 handball finals.

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